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121) Lola plants a garden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow.
122) Bang: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A new friend and their YouTube cooking channel help fourteen-year-old Sebastian move on from accidentally shooting his infant sister ten years earlier.
123) High and dry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this illustrated early chapter book, a young boy and his grandfather work together to save a beached orca."--
124) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Language
English
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"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
125) Amelia writes again
Author
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Amelia draws pictures and writes about her daily life in the journal she receives for her birthday.
126) Wish
Author
Language
English
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"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--
127) Flipped
Author
Language
English
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Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
128) Throwback
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s...alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal with outdated...
129) All about Sam
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
130) Mika: my new life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.
131) Spinky sulks
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
William Steig's Spinky Sulks is a 1988 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year.
Spinky is convinced that his family hates him and goes off to sulk in his hammock. His brother and sister try to make amends. His mom even brings him a beautiful tray of food. But nothing can get Spinky to stop sulking—not even a circus passing by on his street! Will Spinky ever cheer up?
132) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
133) There will be lies
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
135) Home in the woods
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
136) Once upon a Marigold
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
137) Furious thing
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Determined to make her family proud of her, Lexi tries to ignore the anger she feels, but it simmers below the surface waiting to explode.
138) Eleven
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The year between turning eleven and turning twelve bring many changes for Winnie and her friends.
139) Raymie nightingale
Author
Language
English
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Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
140) And she was
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
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